砸鍋

砸锅
záguō
to fail

CEDICT

  1. (colloquial) to fail
  2. to fail

Wiktionary

比喻辦事失敗。

重編國語辭典

比喻辦事失敗

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 砸 zá
  1. to smash
  2. to pound
  3. to fail
  4. to muck up
  5. to bungle
2 鍋 guō
  1. pot; pan; wok; cauldron
  2. pot-shaped thing

classifiers: 口, 隻

Containing this entry

砸鍋賣鐵 záguōmàitiě to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)

Related entries

不及格 bùjígé
  1. to fail
  2. to flunk
他因为准备太少考试不及格了。

He failed in the examination for lack of preparation.

Source: Tatoeba

不遂 bùsuì
  1. to fail
  2. to fail to materialize
  3. not to get one's way
失效 shīxiào
  1. to fail
  2. to lose effectiveness
掛科 guàkē to fail (a course)
我要挂科了！

I'm going to fail the class!

Source: Tatoeba

當掉 dàngdiào
  1. to fail (a student)
  2. to pawn
  3. (of a computer or program) to crash
  4. to stop working
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